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Pictured: John Cale.
One day on the tour, we were driving back to London and I said to the tour manager, ‘I want to get a live chicken.’ We had bought a meat cleaver in Germany and it gave me an idea. I told him to stop at a farmhouse and buy a chicken, but put it in a box so that nobody else in the band would know. However, he came out of the farmhouse holding the squawking chicken by its legs. All the way back to the Portobello Hotel everybody in the band was asking, ‘What’s he gonna do with the fucking chicken? You’re not going to hurt it, right?’
The gig was at Croydon. I had the chicken killed backstage and put on a wooden platter with a handle. I told the roadie, ‘When I get into the second verse of “Heartbreak Hotel”, slide it out to me on the platter.’ I already had the meat cleaver stashed on stage. The guys in the front row were slam-dancing, bopping and swaying. All those punks with their leather and chains, pushing everybody because they’d taken too much speed. So I thought, try a little voodoo! I’m singing, ‘We could be so lonely,’ swinging the chicken around by its feet, nobody in the audience knowing it was dead, ‘we could be so – ‘ Thwok! I decapitated it and threw the body into the slam dancers at the front of the stage, and I threw the head past them. It landed in somebody’s Pimm’s. Everyone looked totally disgusted. The bass player was about to vomit and all the musicians moved away from me. Even the slam dancers stopped in mid-slam. It was the most effective show-stopper I ever came up with.
I have no remorse for the chicken. I like chicken – chicken fricassee. The band’s quitting in protest was pretentious. Bruce Brody and Richie Fliegler stayed on; they were the only non-vegetarians. They too had wanted to know before it happened, ‘What are you gonna do, are you gonna hurt it?’ I said no, and afterwards they told me I lied to them. I said, ‘I didn’t hurt it, I killed it. It didn’t feel a thing.’
— John Cale, What’s Welsh for Zen?
Here’s what we played in Ep. 354 of No Condition Is Permanent:
Don Renaldo Strings — “Fiddlin’ Around” — The Best of Disco Demands: A Collection of Rare 1970s Dance Music
Blo — “Don’t Take Her Away From Me” — Chapters and Phases: The Complete Albums 1973-1975
Bruce Johnston — “Do The Surfer Stomp” — Sun & Surf! Cars And Guitars!
Al Massrieen — “Sah” — Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music
Morphine — “Honey White” — Yes
The Upsetters — “Freak Out Skank” — Wonderman Years
Village — “Long Time Coming” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975
The Mothers of Invention — “Motherly Love” — Freak Out! [US mono]
La Playa Sextet — “El Chico’s Boogaloo” — Doing the Boogaloo
Sly And The Family Stone — “Loose Booty” — Higher!
Kacma Guzel — “Nese Alkan” — Uzelli: Psychedelic Anadolu
Alan Pierce & The Tonekings — “Swampwater” — Let’s Go Instro
Lloyd & Devon — “Wolf Out Deh” — Voodooism
John Cale — “Evidence” — Sabotage/Live
Grand Kallé & L’African-Jazz — “Otuli Foti Na Yo” — Succès Des Années ‘50/’60 Vol. 1
Jimmie Haskell And His Orchestra — “Asteroid Hop” — Count Down!
Ion Petre Stoican — “Hora De La Luceni” — Sounds from A Bygone Age, Vol. 1
Damn Sam the Miracle Man and the Soul Congregation — “Smash” — Damn Sam the Miracle Man and the Soul Congregation
Bossa Combo — “Faux Marmite” — Faux Marmite
Essential Logic — “Wonderful Offer” — Fanfare in the Garden: An Essential Logic Collection
King Tubby & Yabby You — “Wicked Man Time” — Hits of The Past Vol. 2
The Controllers — “The Reaper” — In Control
Boa La La — “Boa Na Na” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco
The Jammers — “You’re Gonna Love Me Too” — Michigan Mayhem Vol. 1
The Latin Quarters — “Mira Mira” — Red Bird 45rpm
Suicide (Alan Vega and Martin Rev) — “Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne” — Suicide (Second Album)
Aktion — “Masquerade” — Groove The Funk
Bootsy Collins — “Rubber Duckie” — Ahh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Errol Brown And The Revolutionaries — “How Do You Dub” — Tip Top Dub
Wynder K. Frog — “Into The Fire” — Into The Fire
Perez Prado And His Orchestra — “Skokiaan” — Mondo Mambo! The Best Of Perez Prado And His Orchestra
Deacon & The Rock ‘n’ Rollers — “Rockin’ On The Moon” — Desperate Rock ‘n’ Roll Vol. 1
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Can — “Alice” — The Lost Tapes
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Pictured: Ali Hassan Kuban.
It is a vegetable plague, spreading from tree to tree. Unstoppable, invisible, a hidden rot, unseeing, unseen by the eyes of the world. Was it born of the deep dark earth? Was it brought to the surface by the mouths of the tiniest creatures? A fungus, perhaps? No, it travels faster than spores, it breeds inside tree roots, buried in their wooden hearts. An ancient, crawling evil. Kill it. Kill it with fire. Light it up and watch it burn, torch all those sickly beeches, firs and giant oaks that have stood the test of time, douse their trunks wounded from a thousand insect bites. Dying now, diseased and dying, dead as they stand. Let it burn and watch the flames reach up to the sky, for left alone it will consume the world, feeding on the death of others, nurtured by all the green grass turned grey. Quiet now, listen. Listen to it grow.
— Benjamin Labatut, “The Night Gardener,” When We Cease To Understand The World.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 353 of No Condition Is Permanent:
Eddie Kendricks — “Let’s Go Back To Day One” — Keep On Truckin’: The Motown Solo Albums, Vol. 1
JK Mandengue — “Kosa Mba” — Africa Airways Six: Mile High Funk 1974-1981
The Catalinas — “Banzai Washout” — Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 2: Point Panic!
Les Abranis — “Chenar Le Blues” — Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983
The Breakers — “Long Green” — Ho-Dad Hootenanny Too!
La Playa Sextet — “Que Buena Baila Usted” — Doing The Boogaloo
Robert Calvert — “Ejection” — Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters
The Chosen Few — “Reggae Stuff (Funky Stuff)” — Funky Kingston: Reggae Dancefloor Grooves 1968-74
Dennis Coffey — “Theme from Black Belt Jones” — Pulp Fusion 3: Revenge Of The Ghetto Grooves
The Band Of Mercy & Salvation — “Suffering Stink” — Loch Ness Monster
Bo Oliver & His Timers — “Farm Dell Rock” — Dr. Boogie Presents Wasa Wasa: Fabulous Rhythm ‘n’ Blues Shakers on the Dancefloor! 1952-1968
Colomach — “Kpanlongo (Folklore)” — Colomach
Johnnie Morisette — “I’m Hungry” — Ancestors of Rap: A Collection Of Highly Underrated Prototype Rap Songs
Asha Bhosle — “Sambhalo Sambhalo Apna Dil” — Bombshell Baby of Bombay
Brenda Holloway — “Reconsider” — Motown Floorshakers: 40 Northern Soul Classics
Dao Bandon — “Mae Jom Kalon (Slippery Women)” — Luk Thung! The Roots Of Thai Funk: Zudrangma Vol. 3
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins — “Little Demon” — The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957
Fruko & Sus Tesos — “María La O” — The Afrosound of Colombia Vol. 1
Ervin Rucker & The Blues Nighthawks — “Done Done The Slop” — At The Party Too!: Too Much Goin’ On!
Ziad Rahbani — “Les Gardienne De Clés” — The Groovy Sounds Of 1970s Lebanon
The Outcasts — “I’m in Pittsburgh (And It’s Raining)” — Garage Beat ’66, Vol. 7: That’s How It Will Be!
Roger Damawuzan & Les As du Benin — “Baba Na Ayele” — Wait for Me
Janice Nicholls — “The Wednesbury Madison” — Instro-Hipsters a Go-Go! Vol. 3
King Tubby — “King Tubby Dub” — 400% Dynamite! Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub In Jamaica
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band — “I’ll Play The Fool” — Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
The Bennito Sextet — “Jumping With Me” — The Bennito Sextet Plus One
The Neons — “Tucson” — Mad Mike Monsters: A Tribute To Mad Mike Metrovich Vol. 2
Tala A.M. — “Hot Koki” — African Funk Experimentals 1975 to 1978
Necessaries — “You Can Borrow My Car” — Spy 45rpm
Winstone Jarrett — “Time Dub” — Atra 45rpm
The Young Senators — “Ringing Bells Pt. 2” — Chains & Black Exhaust
Ali Hassan Kuban — “Ali Samra Helwa” — Nubian Magic
The Velvet Underground — “Run Run Run” — The Velvet Underground & Nico [mono]
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Ennio Morricone — “Excuse Me, Let’s Make Love? (from Scusi Faciamo l’Amore?) — Morricone High
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Pictured: Bobby Fuller & friends.
Back at the dorm by 4:30, I changed straight away and left for the record shop in Shinjuku to put in my hours. I looked after the shop from six o’clock to 10:30 and sold a few records, but mainly I sat there in a daze, watching an incredible variety of people streaming by outside. There were families and couples and drunks and gangsters and lively-looking girls in short skirts and bearded hippies and bar hostesses and some indefinable types. Whenever I put on hard rock, hippies and runaway kids would gather outside to dance and sniff paint thinner or just sit on the ground doing nothing in particular, and when I put on Tony Bennett, they would disappear.
Next door was a shop where a middle-aged, sleepy-eyed man sold “adult toys”. I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want the kind of sex paraphernalia he had there, but he seemed to do a roaring trade. In the alley diagonally across from the record shop I saw a drunken student vomiting. In the game arcade across from us at another angle, the cook from a local restaurant was killing time on his break with a game of bingo that took cash bets. Beneath the eaves of a shop that had closed for the night, a swarthy homeless guy was crouching, motionless. A girl with pale pink lipstick who couldn’t have been more than 12 or 13 came in and asked me to play the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”. When I found the record and put it on for her, she started snapping her fingers to the rhythm and shaking her hips as she danced around the shop. Then she asked me for a cigarette. I gave her one of the manager’s, which she smoked gratefully, and when the record ended she left the shop without so much as a “thank you”.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 352 of No Condition Is Permanent:
MFSB — “Get Down with The Philly Sound” — Philadelphia International Records: 40th Anniversary
Roger Damawuzan — “Wait For Me” — African Scream Contest
Aki Aleong & The Nobles — “Body Surf” — The Surf Creature Vol. 2
Los Compadres Del Ande — “El Lorcho” — Andina: Huayno, Carnaval And Cumbia – The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978
Rudy & The Reno Bop’s — “Rudy’s Monkey” — Dr Boogie Presents Heavy Jelly
Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters — “Soulful I” — Return of Django
James Brown — “Mind Power (Alternate)” — Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975
Dao Bandon — “Tang Ngarn Si Nong” — The Sound Of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam from Thailand 1964 -75
T. Valentine — “Hello Lucille Are You A Lesbian” — I Still Hate CD’s: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection
Remi Kabaka — “New Reggae Funk” — Son of Africa
The Gap Band — “Easy Life” — Magicians Holiday
Sinn Sisamouth — “Rom A Go-Go (A Go Go Dance)” — Groove Club Vol 4: Sinn Sisamouth
Bobby Fuller — “I Fought The Law” — El Paso Rock: Early Recordings Volume 3
Perez Prado And His Orchestra — “Kuba-Mambo” — Kuba-Mambo 1947-1949
New York Dolls — “Trash” — New York Dolls
The Techniques — “Marry Me” — Techniques In Dub
William “Bootsy” Collins — “Take A Lickin’ and Keep On Kickin’” — The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away
Goblin — “La Via Della Droga” — Beretta 70: Roaring Themes From Thrilling Italian Police Films 1971-80
The Wailers — “Mau-Mau” — Golden Crest Instrumentals Featuring the Wailers
Nese Alkan — “Tut Kalbimi Tut” — Turkish Ladies: Female Singers From Turkey 1974-1988
The Squires — “Do Be Oo Be Wop Wop” — Ai! Si! Si!: Mambo & Latin Flavoured Rhythm & Blues
Franklin Koukaka & Negro Succes — “Tombe Mire Spa” — Les Merveilles du Passé 1967
Silvertones — “Get It!” — Lux and Ivy’s Favorites Vol. 11
Mazouni — “Si Massoud (Je T’aime Et Je T’aimerai)” — Un Dandy En Exil / Algérie-France / 1969-1983
Baby Huey And The Babysitters — “Monkey Man” — Mad Mike Monsters: A Tribute To Mad Mike Petrovich Vol. 3
King Tubby — “Rock With I Dub” — Dub Chill Out
Donovan — “Barabajagal” — Barabajagal
Brim — “Anti GanDJa” — Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesia Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978
The Tickle — “Subway (Smokey Pokey World)” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975
The Aggrovators — “The Big Apple” — Jammies in Lion Dub Style
Flash Terry — “She’s My Baby” — Stompin’ 28
Wganda Kenya — “Yoro” — Wganda Kenya
The Ugly Ducklings — “I’m a Man” — Garage Beat ’66, Vol. 2: Chicks Are for Kids!
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Moralito — “La Civilizacion” — Tierra Adentro
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Pictured: Don Sonrabiab.
He extends the mouthpiece to me, tends to the position of the pipe and the steady coddling of the bubbling chandoo. The taste, the scent—yes, there is to them that lovely, sweet-roasting hazelnut aroma, that delicate perfume of unknown flowers; but these are just the airs that drift through what can only be called ambrosia. My lungs cannot have enough of it, so unimaginable the taste, so soft and gentle the vapors.
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
I am aswirl, bird-soul and breeze, amid the cool high mountain trees of the myriad-meaninged knowledge of that thing, savior and destroyer, within. Never has an afternoon passed in such serenity, in life lived so fully, so freely of the maggots of that glob of gross crenulated meat that we call mind. To be here now, wordless, every breath a bringing forth, peering calm and adrift through the interstices of forever.
— Nick Tosches, The Last Opium Den.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 351 of No Condition Is Permanent:
MFSB w/The Three Degrees — “T.S.O.P. [The Sound of Philadelphia]” — Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia
Remi Kabaka — “Aqueba Masaaba” — Son of Africa
The Tempests — “Lemon Lime” — Strummin’ Mental! Vol. 4
Sakir Oner Gunham — “Ben Bu Yaralara Nerden Dus Oldum” — Turkish Freakout 2: Psych-Folk 1970-1978
The Road Runners — “Pretty Me” — Screamers, Bangers & Cosmic Synths Vol. II
Polibio Mayorga y Su Conjunto — “Culebrita Dormida” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81
The 13th Floor Elevators — “You’re Gonna Miss Me” — The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators (Mono)
Don Sonrabiab — “Soul Dracula” — Thai Beat A Go Go Vol. 3: Groovy 60’s Sounds from the Land of Smile!
Wess and the Airedales — “Black Out” — That’s What Friends Are For
Gregory Isaacs — “Embarrassment” — Trojan Dub Box Set Vol. 2
The New Philadelphians — “The Mustang Pt. 1” — Movements, Vol. 10
Henri Guedon — “Zinglindou” — 10 Ans De Musique Caraïbe
The Loving Machines — “The Loving Machine” — Ho-Dad Hootenanny Too!
Tabu Ley — “Paquita” — Congo: Rumba on the River
Lela Martin & The Soul Providers — “You Can’t Have Your Cake (And Eat It Too)” — Melatone 45rpm
Wganda Kenya — “Bayesa” — Wganda Kenya
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers — “I’m Your Witchdoctor” — The Immediate Singles Collection
Los Dandy’s — “Normal Nomás” — Lindo Amorcito
Crystal Image — “Gonna Have A Good Time” — Mainstream Disco Funk
Najib Alhoush — “Free Music II” — The Free Music (Part 1)
T. Rex — “Jewel” — The Peel Session
Joseph Kabasele — “Tujala Tshibemba” — Le Grand Kallé: His Life, His Music – Joseph Kabasele and the Creation of Modern Congolese Music
Ike Turner — “Do You Mean It” — Federal Records 55-60 Story: I’ll Go Crazy
Rung Fah Puping — “Pu Yai Lee Santana” — Thai? Dai!: The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground
The Don Thompson Quartet — “Cheese Blintzes” — Frolic Diner Pt. 1
The Funkees — “Slipping Into Darkness” — Dancing Time: The Best Of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77
Bob Johnson — “Walking On The Moon (Men Are Starving)” — Trip To The Moon: 14 Obscure R&B, Garage Rock And Deepfunk Songs About The Moon
The Aggrovators and King Tubby’s — “Straight To Channel 1’s Head” — Jackpot Dub: Rare Dubs From Jackpot Records 1974-1976
The Velvet Underground — “I’m Waiting For The Man (Mono Version)” — The Velvet Underground & Nico
Los Invasores De Progreso — “Humo En La Selva” — Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition Into The Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
Funkadelic — “You Can’t Miss What You Can’t Measure” — Cosmic Slop
Afida Es & the Siglap Boys — “Jangan Goda” — Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970: Vol. 1
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Dorothy Ashby — “Soul Vibrations” — Afro-Harping
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Pictured: John Otway.
“Five windows light the cavern’d Man: thro’ one he breathes the air;
Thro’ one hears music of the spheres; thro’ one the eternal vine
Flourishes, that he may recieve the grapes; thro’ one can look
And see small portions of the eternal world that ever groweth;
Thro’ one himself pass out what time he please; but he will not,
For stolen joys are sweet & bread eaten in secret pleasant.”
— William Blake, “A Prophecy” from Europe (1794).
Here’s what we played in Ep. 350 of No Condition Is Permanent:
The Street People — “You’re My One Weakness Girl” — Frankie Crocker “Do It Frankie, Do It To It!”
Livy Ekemezie — “Delectation” — Friday Night
The Chandelles — “El Gato” — Sleazy Surf! Vol. 2
Ongart Jeerapan — “I Come Alone” — Thai Funk: ZudRangMa
The 101ers — “Silent Telephone” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975
Joe Gibbs — “International Treaty” — Majestic Dub
Wire — “Our Swimmer [2nd Length]” — 154
Fadoul — “Tayeh” — Al Zman Saib
Soul Continentals — “Goobah (African Twist)” — Funky Crimes
Wganda Kenya — “Combate A Kung-Fu” — The Afrosound of Colombia Vol. 1
John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett — “Louisa On A Horse” — John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
Sadistic Mika Band — “Time Machine ni Onegai (Time Machine)” — Kurofune (Black Ship)
The Detroit Cobras — “Green Light” — Tied & True
Sonido Gallo Negro — “Inca-A-Delic” — The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cumbia
The Stallions — “Why” — Hey Baby It’s The Stallions
The Son Of P.M. — “Hey Klong Yao [Klong Yao]” — Hey Klong Yao! Essential Collection Of Modernized Thai Music From The 1960s
Jeff Simmons — “Zondo Zondo” — Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
Yabby You & The Prophets — “Mash Down Rome Dub” — The Yabby You Sound (Dubs & Versions)
Hallmarks — “I Know Why” — Back from the Grave #4
The Oriental Brothers International — “Tax Drive” — Afro Psych (Journeys Into Psychedelic Africa 1972 – 1977)
John Fred & The Playboys — “Shirley” — Modernists: A Decade Of Rhythm & Soul Dedication
Fatoş Balkır, Ve İstanbul Gelişim Orkestrası — “Hey!… Taksi” — Bosporus Bridges 3: A Wide Selection of Turkish Funk And Jazz
Judi & The Affections — “Dum, Dum, De Dip” — Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground
Johnny Zamot — “Soul Makossa” — New York Latin Hustle! The Sound of New York
Ramones — “Cretin Hop” — Rocket to Russia
Wang Xiang Ling — “Love Spirit” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco
Young John Watson — “Space Guitar” — R&B Hipshakers Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits
The Prophets — “Ten To One (Version)” — King Tubby’s Prophecies Of Dub
The Isley Brothers — “Wild As A Tiger” — R&B Humdingers 4
Vaudou Game — “Bella” — Noussin
Roxy Music — “Trash” — Manifesto
Alcibiades y Su Banda — “Bomba de Pobres” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81
Buzzcocks — “Time’s Up” — Spiral Scratch EP
Pamelo Mounka — “Non Monsieur” — L’incontournable
Monad & The Electrons — “Foam Song” — Screamers, Bangers & Cosmic Synths Vol. II
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Masters of Reality — “100 Years (Of Tears on The Wind)” — Sunrise on the Sufferbus
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Pictured: Joe Gibbs.
Welcome to ‘Tribesman Rockers’, one of the many high spots of the 1978 dub album [African Dub Almighty Chapter Three], conceived, created and superbly crafted by the Mighty Two, aka studio owner/producer Joe Gibbs and his engineer Errol ‘ET’ Thompson. Just as you’re coming to terms with what’s going on around you, a familiar melody percolates out of the maelstrom. Lord Creator’s ‘Kingston Town’. Somewhat disconcertingly, as it’s not really possible to imagine a song further mutated from what its composer intended it to be – either musically or sociologically – yet still remain recognizable.
But disconcerting is just what it ought to be. To take each element of the tune as separate – the bass, the drums, the horns, the bongos, the keyboards and so on – then set out to refocus the whole piece of work by adjusting, tweaking, bringing forward or pushing back each of them individually until the whole is satisfactorily rebalanced is to reach back to Africa and the practices that came over to Jamaica as obeah. Behind the smoke and mirrors and the waving of chickens are the art’s central planks – the far less-photogenic healing ways: homoeopathy, herbalism, that sort of thing. It’s an ancient African medicine that splits the body up into seven centres or ‘selves’ – sexual, digestive, heart, brain, etc. – and by prescribing various herbs and potions would, as practitioners always describe it, ‘bring forward or push back’ different centres; remixing, as it were, a person’s physical or mental state into something very different. In other words, obeah could be used to cure a headache, just as it could make the worst grouch love the whole world or set the meekest of souls up to do battle. In the same way, by adjusting the controls at the mixing desk, a tune as bright and breezy (some might say cheesy) as ‘Kingston Town’ can be reinvented as something so edgy and surprising as ‘Tribesman Rockers’.
— Lloyd Bradley, Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 349 of No Condition Is Permanent:
Archie Bell & The Drells — “The Soul City Walk” — Philadelphia International Records: 40th Anniversary
Monomono — “Tire Loma Da Nigbehin” — Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos
The Renegades — “Charge!” — Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story
Los Megatones De Lucho — “Pa’ Los Bravo” — Dj Hecu Presenta: Wild Rhythms Vol. 2 By Salsa Son Timba
Don & Dewey — “Bim Bam” — Specialty 45rpm
Money Chicha — “Yo No Soy Turku” — Echo en Mexico
John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett — “Louisa On A Horse” — John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
The Versatiles — “Push It In” — Trojan Box Set: X-Rated Box Set
Devo — “Uglatto” — Hardcore Devo: Vol. 1
The New Bangs — “Go Go Kitty” — Beat Jazz / Pictures from The Gone World Vol. 1
Ray Barretto — “Acid” — Acid
The Misunderstood — “My Mind” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975
Yol Aularong — “Yuvajon Kouge Jet (Broken Hearted Man)” — Cambodian Nuggets
The Flamethrowers — “Whippy Wow” — The Michigan Box: 1950s & 1960s Oddball Labels
Sylvia Hall — “Don’t Touch That Thing” — Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay
George Clinton & The Parliaments — “The Goose (That Laid The Golden Egg)” — The Singles 1967-1971
Gul Sorgun — “Ara Leyli” — Turkish Ladies: Female Singers From Turkey 1974-1988
The Moon Dawgs — “Baby As Time Goes By” — Trip To The Moon: 14 Obscure R&B, Garage Rock And Deepfunk Songs About The Moon
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals — “Chapter Three” — African Dub All Mighty Chapter 3
Stelvio Cipriani — “Blindman’s Mariachi #2” — Blindman OST
The Only Ones — “Creature Of Doom” — The Only Ones
Junior y Su Equipo — “America India” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81
Gram Parsons — “Ooh Las Vegas” — Grievous Angel
Ibo Combo — “Engendre” — Engendre
Roy Brown — “Boogie At Midnight” — Pay Day Jump: The King & Deluxe Acetate Series
Buari — “Ku Ka Maria” — Buari
Whitefield Brothers — “Yakuba” — In The Raw
Juan-Juan Zou — “Pond Side” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco
Dave Hamilton — “Tell Your Mama” — Detroit City Grooves
Yabby You & The Prophets — “Mash Down Rome Dub” — The Yabby You Sound (Dubs & Versions)
Jimmie Haskell and His Orchestra — “Astrosonic” — Count Down!
Armand Pascal Lido & L’Ivoiro Star — “Dogbo Zo N’Wene” — Assalam Aleikoum Africa Vol. 1
Buzzcocks — “Breakdown” — Spiral Scratch EP
Najib Alhoush — “Free Music I” — The Free Music (Part 1)
Rudy Greene — “Wild Life” — Stompin’ 10
La Orquesta Carnaval Swing — “Descarga Colombiana” — The Afrosound of Colombia, Vol. 3
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The Fugs — “Fingers Of The Sun” — Tenderness Junction
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Pictured: Robert Calvert.
An occasional frontman and poet-in-residence with Hawkwind, Robert Calvert was one of the truly great English rock’n’roll eccentrics of our age. As a science fiction poet and novelist, he seemed to be living a decade ahead of the rest of the world, anticipating everything from virtual reality and the internet while cyberpunk author William Gibson was still in short pants, to punk rock while a long-haired John Lydon stood in the audience at numerous Hawkwind shows.
As well as writing “Silver Machine” and its follow up “Urban Guerrilla” for Hawkwind, Calvert used that band, along with fellow English eccentrics Twink (Pink Fairies drummer), Brian Eno, Arthur Brown and Viv Stanshall, for Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters, his first of five solo albums recorded intermittently until his death in 1988.
Songs from the album, such as “The Widow’s Song,” continue to crop up in Hawkwind sets from time to time… The sketches, such as Stanshall’s upper-class German twit in Two Test Pilots Discuss The Starfighter’s Performance are genuinely funny: First pilot: “How does she handle?” Second pilot: “Pretty good. I found I could balance a glass of beer on my oxygen mask, while I was flying it in a slow roll… go into a loop, light a cigarette, peel a banana and thread a needle at twenty-five-thousand feet… go into a dive, do the three-card trick, write my name backwards, catch a peanut in my mouth and juggle my eyeballs from one socket to the other.” First pilot: “Sounds like a pretty nifty kite.”
— Tommy Udo, Classic Rock.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 348 of No Condition Is Permanent:
MFSB — “Brothers And Sisters” — Philadelphia Freedom
Christy Ogbah — “Advise” — Duomo Sounds Ltd: Nigerian 80s Disco Music to Move Your Soul
Zorba & The Greeks — “Shockwave” — The Surf Creature
Perihan — “Nerden Nereye” — Turkish Freakout 2 (Psych-Folk 1970-1978)
Apostolic Intervention — “(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me” — The Immediate Singles Collection
Wang Xiang Ling — “Love Spirit” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco
Dream Team — “I’m Not Satisfied” — Eccentric Soul: The Shiptown Label
GMC & The Arcells — “The Witch” — Back from the Grave # 10
R. D. Burman Feat. Asha Bhosle — “Mera Naam Hai Shabnam” — The Bombay Connection Vol. 2: Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves from Bollywood Films 1959-1972
The Deejays — “Blackeyed Woman” — British Mod Sounds of the 1960s
Johnny Zamont — “Fat Mama” — Rough Guide to Boogaloo Vol. 2
The Cramps — “Zombie Dance” — Songs the Lord Taught Us
Najib Alhoush — “Ana Qalbi Ehtar” — The Free Music (Part 1)
Ohio Players — “Ruffell Foot” — Pleasure
Dead Men’s Orchestra — “Totencombo” — Hồ! #1 Roady Music From Viêtnam
Robert Calvert — “The Right Stuff” — Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters
Phil Flowers — “Twistin’ Beat” — ‘Black’ Rock ‘n’ Roll – Savage Kick Vol. 10
King Tubby — “Stealing Version” — King Tubby’s Hometown Hi-Fi Dubplate Specials 1975-1979
The Knickerbockers — “One Track Mind” — Nuggets I: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
Orkes Kelana Ria — “Sajang” — Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry ⋆ 1955-69
Rangers — “Snow Skiing” — HO-DAD HOOTENANNY!
Dur-Dur Band Int. — “Wan Ka Helaa” — The Berlin Session
Danny & the Demons — “Phelpio” — High School Rumble Vol 2: 18 Explosive 50’s/60’s Instrumentals
Kalyanji Anandji — “Cabaret Dance Music” — The Bombay Connection
Adrienne Posta — “Shang A Doo Lang” — The Girls’ Scene
Pamelo Mounk’a — “L’Argent Appelle L’Argent” — Pamelo Mounk’a
The Stooges — “T.V. Eye” — Fun House
Olmedo Torres y Los Gatos — “Don Alfoncito” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81
The James Quintet — “Paw’s In The Kitchen” — Dangerous Doo-Wop 4
Junior Murvin — “Lucifer” — Police & Thieves
Andre Williams — “Whip Your Booty” — Whip Your Booty! Rare & Unreleased Soul, Funk & Dance Jams From The Vaults Of Andre Williams – 1967-1977
Rei Nakanishi & Kunihiko Suzuki — “Kinjirareta Ichiya” — Killing Melody: Instrumental Music from Japanese Pinky Violence Movies
LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…
Peter Cook & the Dudley Moore Trio — “Bedazzled” — Bedazzled: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Pictured: Najib Alhoush.
They thought I was American and they came up to me and said, “Man we have to score some hash, where can we go?” They asked my name and I told them and Gregory [Corso] said, “That’s a Frog name!” I said, “Yeah, I’m French!” and they couldn’t believe it. Anyway, so we took the Metro and we went to the Bastille. At the Bastille there was a little Algerian place called Chez Madame Ali, and we used to spend a lot of time Chez Madame Ali. Ali was an Algerian fellow, and his wife was French, it was Madame Ali’s place. It was on the Passage Thiere, near the Place Bastille. There was two rooms. The first room was [sic] tables and you would eat couscous and when you entered there you were stoned immediately because the thickness of the smoke was so heavy that you couldn’t breathe without getting stoned, just breathing the air. We would buy little cubes of hash, as thick as a finger, for three francs. It was black stuff, coming specially from Khetama in Morocco, really good stuff. Madame Ali had a dog, and the dog was so stoned, he would always bump himself into chairs. The dog was totally out of his mind, he couldn’t walk straight. To go from here to there he would go around the room. The dog was completely wrecked.
— Jean-Jacques Lebel, as quoted in Barry Miles’ The Beat Hotel.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 347 of No Condition Is Permanent:
Calender — “Hypertension” — Disco 75
Kris Okotie — “Show Me Your Backside” — Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983
The Pyramids — “Contact” — Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 1: Big Noise From Waimea!
Anibal Velasquez y Su Conjunto — “Cecilia” — Mambo Loco
Alvie Self — “Let’s Go Wild” — Let’s Go Wild
Esmeray — “Ölmeden De Yaşamak” — Turkish Ladies: Female Singers From Turkey 1974-1988
Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix — “Kings of Speed” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975
East-West Pipeline — “Angels Die Hard” — Savage Pencil presents Angel Dust: Music for Movie Bikers
The Nitty Gritty Sextet — “Say Listen” — Let’s Boogaloo Vol. 6: Explosive Deep Funk, Northern Soul & Dancefloor Jazz En El Barrio
Tony & Tyrone — “Turn It On” — The Jerk Boom! Bam! 2
King Tubby & Thompson Sounds — “Loving Dub” — Whip Them King Tubby! Linval Thompson & Friends
The Light Nites — “Same Old Thing” — Best of Dunwich Records Vol. 2
Georgette Sayegh — “Ya Nassini” — The Groovy Sounds of 1970s Lebanon
Mars — “3e” — New York Noise 2016 Edition: Dance Music from The New York Underground 1977-1982
Ros Sereysothea, Sinn Sisamouth And Friends — “Month After Month Always Busy, Can’t Go Out” — Cambodian Psych-Out
Jack Fascinato — “Happy Medium” — Jack Fascinato Arranges Things
Fela Ransome-Kuti & His Koolalobitos — “Omuti” — Lagos Baby 1963-1969
The Missing Links — “You’re Driving Me Insane” — Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire & Beyond 1964-1969
Rob — “More” — Funky Rob Way
Monad & The Electrons — “Foam Song” — Screamers, Bangers & Cosmic Synths Vol. II
Alcibiades y Su Banda — “Bomba de Pobres” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81
Paul Gayten — “Beatnik Bounce” — The Ultimate Beatnik Collection Vol. 2
Black Ark Players — “Rasta Man” — Black Ark In Dub
The Kinks — “Got My Feet On The Ground” — Kinda Kinks [mono]
Henri Guédon — “Eti Yo” — Karma
Tony March & The Rockets — “Show Down” — Instrumental Madness!
Les Djinns — “Nadia” — 1970’s Algerian Folk and Pop
The Detroit Cobras — “Cha Cha Twist” — Mink, Rat or Rabbit
Syran Mbenza — “Vie Ya Moto” — Signé Eddy’Son
Don McGinnis — “Star Light Star Bright” — Travelin’ Light
The Aggrovators and King Tubby’s — “You’re All I’ve Got Version” — Jackpot Dub: Rare Dubs From Jackpot Records 1974-1976
Suicide (Alan Vega and Martin Rev) — “Fast Money Music” — Suicide (Second Album)
Najib Alhoush — “Arb Share’I” — The Free Music (Part 1)
LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…
Del Shannon — “Silently” — Home and Away
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Pictured: Anna Karina in ‘Souviens-toi (2017).’
Doris Wishman’s style is all her own. Only Jean-l.uc Godard can match her indifference to composition and framing; if two people are talking and one is partially obscured by a post, so be it-the camera will nat change its angle. Some times we are treated to static shots of feet-or torsos, or hands-while voices talk off-screen. At other times Ms. Wishman will trade off shots in such a way that we never see the person who’s talking — instead we watch the listener, his head nodding thoughtfully to words from a speaker we can’t see. Often her camera imitates a human eye roving restlessly around the room, occasionally allowing insignificant objects to hold its attention. for example, the camera might follow a person to a dresser, then stop to dwell on the various items (objects completely irrelevant to the plot) it finds there.
— Jim Morton “Doris Wishman Biography” Incredibly Strange Films.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 346 of No Condition Is Permanent:
Loleatta Holloway & The Salsoul Orchestra — “Runaway” — The Anthology
Rock Town Express — “Peaceful Solution” — Rock Town Express
The Dantes — “Zebra Shoot” — Strummin’ Mental! Vol. 4
Najib Alhoush — “Law Yom Saalak Had” — Free Music Pt. 1
The Bobbettes — “I Don’t Like It Like That, Pt. 1” — Beat from Badsville Vol. 3
Boris Gardiner — “Meltin’ Pot” — I Gotta New Dance
Alonzo & Boppers — “Juicy Melon” — Las Vegas Grind Vol. 7
Banda Los Hijos De La Niña Luz — “Dejala Corre” — Soundway EP
The Webb People — “Bump With Me” — Dave Hamilton’s Detroit Funk
Augustus Pablo — “Feeling Moody” — Andy’s 45rpm
The Guess Who — “Shakin’ All Over” — Greasy Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 2
Chris Ajilo and His Cubanos — “Ariwo” — Catchy Rhythms From Nigeria Vol. 1
The Valentines with Cal Valentine — “That’s It Man” — West Coast Guitar Killers Vol. 3
Baris Manco — “Mozart” — Turkish Freakout 2: Psych-Folk 1970-1978
Gram Parsons — “Still Feeling Blue” — GP
Los Locos Del Ritmo — “Yo No Soy Rebelde” — Santo Presents…Mexican Rock And Roll Rumble
Freddie Terrell & The Soul Expedition — “Itching” — Soul Expedition
Kalyanji & Anandji feat. Anand Prayag & Chorus — “Pretty Pretty Priya” — The Bombay Connection: Vol. 2: Bouncin’ Nightclub Grooves From Bollywood Films 1959-1972
Funkadelic — “Philmore” — America Eats Its Young
The Aggrovators and King Tubby’s — “The Poor Barber (Ali Ba Ba – Jackie Edwards)” — Jackpot Dub: Rare Dubs from Jackpot Records 1974-1976
The Real Kids — “She’s Alright” — The Real Kids
Orti, Mayorga y Chiriboga — “Di Que Me Amas” — Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-81
Shadows Of Knight — “I’m Gonna Make You Mine” — Nuggets I: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
Vaudou Game — “Zorromi” — Noussin
The Modern Lovers — “Roadrunner” — The Modern Lovers
Pasteur Lappé — “Sekelimania (Nku Bilam)” — African Funk Experimentals 1979 to 1981
Wire — “Too Late” — Chairs Missing
Dennis Bovell — “Dub Guide” — Dub 4 Daze
Bob Seger & the Last Heard — “Heavy Music (Pt. 1)” — Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967
Ralph Robles — “Taking Over” — We Got Latin Soul!
Roxy Music — “Dance Away” — Manifesto
LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…
Anna Karina — “Jamais Je Ne T’ai Dit Que Je T’aimerai Toujours” — Bandes Originales des Filmes de Jean-Luc Godard
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Pictured: The b-52’s.
Yet talk of difference concealed important ties. Participant and critic Steven Hager would go on to argue that the Club 57 crowd was “more interested in the sort of sensibility embodied by the b-52’s” than its Mudd Club counterpart, preferring grooviness, camp, and color to dissonance, seriousness, and black, yet the b-52s performed at the Mudd Club several times, Fred Schneider worked at the White Street spot, and his cohosting of the “Hawaiian Beach Party” set the tone for future forays into kitsch and irony. Twisting in the other direction, Mudd Club diehards Amos Poe and James Nares screened films at Club 57, the Contortions performed at the St. Mark’s spot long before they debuted on White Street… “Most of the things were extreme and very sexual, gender-bending or campy — a cross between drag shows and social critique,” recalls Diego Cortez, another participant whose social allegiance was never singular. “It was high-level camp and interesting from a theatrical point of view. I went there all the time.” Nor did clichés about drug consumption straightforwardly apply, for while mushrooms were popular on St. Mark’s Place, heroin hardly went down at all on White Street, in part because coke was the drug of choice, in part because of the sheer impracticality of shooting up in a bar. “Early on there was a bit of a rivalry,” observes [Club 57 founder Ann] Magnuson. “But I hesitate to even call it that now, even though I’ve been quoted saying as much.”
— Tim Lawrence, Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983.
Here’s what we played in Ep. 345 of No Condition Is Permanent:
KC and the Sunshine Band — “That’s the Way (I Like It)” — KC and the Sunshine Band
Gboyega Adelaja — “Funky City” — Colourful Environment
The Elite UFO — “Tarantula” — Surf-Age Nuggets
Charanjit Singh — “Chhailla Babu (From “Chhailla Babu”, 1978)” — Jonny Trunk & Joel Martin Present Bollywood Funk Experience
B-52s — “52 Girls” — DB 45rpm
Prince Far I — “Message From the King” — Message From the King
Wayne Walker — “All I Can Do Is Cry” — Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 7
Wganda Kenya — “Combate A Kung-Fu” — The Afrosound of Colombia Vol.1
The Teacher Haters — “Cut Loose” — Wholesale EP
Noppadol Duangporn — “Yaak (Want)” — Luk Thung! The Roots Of Thai Funk: Zudrangma Vol. 3
Sam Gopal — “Cold Embrace” — Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou — “Ahouli Vou Yelli” — Albarika Store Archive Vol. 1
The Royal Jokers — “Beatnik” — Beat, Beat, Beatsville! Beatnik Rock ‘n’ Roll
Hùng Cường & Mai Lệ Huyền — “Hờn Anh Giận Em (Jealousy)” — Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band — “Safe As Milk” — It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper
The Lebron Brothers — “Boogaloo Lebron” — Playtime: Pure 70’s Latin Soul & Boogaloo
The Rivingtons — “Mama-Oom-Mow-Mow” — Papa Oom Mow Mow: Rockin’ R&B and Boss Ballads
Don Bruce and The Angels — “Kinuye” — Nigeria 70 Vol. 4: No Wahala – Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987
Ohio Players — “Runnin’ From the Devil” — Fire
Fatoş Balkır, Ve İstanbul Gelişim Orkestrası — “Hey!… Taksi” — Bosporus Bridges 3: A Wide Selection Of Turkish Funk And Jazz
The Crestones — “She’s A Bad Motorcycle” — The Madness Invasion Vol. 2
Al Massrieen — “Bahebek La” — Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music
The Emperors — “Karate [Mono 45 Rpm Version]” — Penniman 45rpm
The Rubies — “Take It Easy Casanova” — Souvenirs of the Soul Clap Vol. 3
Pamelo Mounk’a — “Ngaï Mwana Ya Mana” — Pamelo Mounk’a
The Velvet Underground — “Rock & Roll (Full-Length Version)” — Loaded
Abdou El Omari — “Raksatoun Fillail” — Nuits D’été Avec Naima Samih (Yellow Album)
Panic Buttons — “Come Out Smokin’” — The Philly Sound Get Down: Funky Philly Instrumentals
LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…
Michael Boddicker — “End Credits (Long Version)” — The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension OST
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"The compensation for the loss of innocence, of simplicity, of unselfconscious energy, is the classic moment... It's there on record. You can play it any time."
- George Melly, Revolt Into Style
"Reciprovocation ees the spites of life, M'sieur"
- Mlle. Hepzibah, Pogo